From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 16:47:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC3A16A401 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:47:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from webmaillogin.com (fr3.webmaillogin.com [216.40.35.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD1843D45 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:47:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from [216.240.12.2] (account gpeel@thenetnow.com HELO GRANT) by fr3.webmaillogin.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTPA id 167931744 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:47:09 -0400 Message-ID: <00bc01c66175$66ac65c0$6401a8c0@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:47:02 -0400 Organization: The Net Now Internet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Subject: First Upgrade SUCCESS! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:47:11 -0000 Hi all, After using FreeBSD for many years, and all the time upgrading via backing up data and installing from new ISO CD, I have finally decided to talke the time and learn source and ports upgrading. The first one I did was on a devel server with a few ports installed. Upgraded 5.4 RELEASE to 6.1 RC1. Since I have DRAC cards on all the new servers I was able to do it completely remote! That having been said, I have a couple of questions. 1). Is there a simpler way to run mergmaster. What I wound up doing after going blind reading all the diffs, and saying I would 'Deal With Them LAter" was to re-run it and hit 'i' to accept the newly installed version, as the manpage states 'i' is the most commonly used one. So the question is, is all I really need to deal with now, rc.conf, master.passwd, group, sshd_config etc? Should I be accepting 99% of them with 'i'? 2). I have a 4.10 and 4.7 server that I need to upgraded. Can I go from them to 6.1 (When RCn is released?) Or will I need to upgrade to 5.x first? Or, would a virgin install be better here? 3). My Primary nameserver is running 5.2.1. Will it be safe, i.e. will the upgrade process leave my MySQL and BIND setups alone? If not, what must I do to save them? (Other than backing them up, which I of course will do). 4). My Secondary nameserver is 4.4 (Yeah, I know ...). Is it safe to upgrade it simlar to whatever the answer to '2' above is? i.e. straight to 6.1, or 5.x first, or clean install? The most help (I think) I need is with dealing with MERGEMASTER' as it seems a very 'thick' process to undertake. -Grant